The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

Author:Charles Neville Buck [Buck, Charles Neville]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781506195285
Google: YTMvrgEACAAJ
Published: 2010-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XV

TWO DISCOVERIES

Bob Maxwell was standing before the fire. He turned abstractedly and set his untouched glass on the mantel shelf.

“You’ve got a grouch, Bobby,” lectured the young actress, “at a time when you ought to be all puffed up and chesty. Aren’t you glad we made good in the same

piece? It would be nice of you to say so.”

He turned on her a face strangely drawn and his words came swiftly in agitation.

“Triumph, did you say? Don’t you know that it’s only when you get the thing you’ve worked for, that you realize it’s not worth working for? That’s not triumph

—it’s despair. Triumph means laying your prize at somebody’s feet—” he broke

off with a sort of groan. “To hell with such success!” he burst out with sudden bitterness. “To hell and damnation with the whole of it!”

For a long while the girl held him in a steady scrutiny. They had both forgotten

me, silent in my corner. Her cheeks paled a little, and when finally she reiterated

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